The USAID Keneya Nieta project funded by USAID is implemented in Mali by a consortium of NGOs led by URC. It targets four essential results, the aim of which is to contribute to the establishment of a resilient community health system by strengthening the community’s capacity to organize and mobilize local resources to make decisions for their own health.

• USAID Keneya Nieta works to ensure communities adopt and maintain key enabling behaviors.
• Keneya Nieta’s activities also aim to improve the financial management, planning and savings of individuals, households and communities in order to finance their own health.
• Increased community engagement, ownership and oversight of local health services.
• Finally it aims to empower the community in terms of independently planning and implementing key health promotion and awareness activities.

CPHDA under the leadership of the project lead is responsible for two results out of the four expected, in particular result 2 relating to the improvement of financial management, planning and savings of individuals, households and communities in order to be able to finance their own health . And result 3 concerns increased ownership and monitoring of local health services by communities.

Through these two results, CPHDA has set up 3,855 functional platforms, or 96% of villages, made up of village health committees, WASH, village health solidarity committees and GSANs. These platforms, under the technical coordination of CHWs and the leadership of village chiefs, carry out communication activities for the adoption and maintenance of key health-promoting behaviors. In collaboration with other Technical and Financial Partners (PTFs), CPHDA supported the Ministry of Health and Social Development through the General Directorate of Health in the development and dissemination of an accountability implementation guide. for Mali. The accountability frameworks defined in this guide are driven by the platforms at the community level.

To finance community health, CPHDA has set up 3,512 village health solidarity funds and mobilized 364,432,904 FCFA through communities but also the private sector and the diaspora to finance household health. The funds thus mobilized contributed to the care of 1,459 pregnant women for prenatal consultations (ANC), deliveries including transport and 4,428 children under 5 years of age for curative care, nutritional demonstrations and village transport. towards the health center. CPHDA also trained and equipped 150 women’s groups for income-generating activities affecting 704 women. The funds generated by these activities are partly paid into village solidarity funds to finance the health of vulnerable households.

As part of the emergency transport of pregnant women and sick children under 5 years old from households to health centers, CPHDA has set up 2,180 transport mechanisms. These mechanisms transported 1,062 pregnant women and 930 children under 5 years old to health services for emergency care.